 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | A friend had suggested I try Cetacaine spray when my throat was really bad. In my fog, I never followed through with the docs. I had an endoscopy last week and they used it to reduce the gag reflex just before we got started. It had a nifty thin straw and blasted down the throat, EXACTLY where it was hurting during radiation. It was banana flavored or something like that and numbed it in 2-3 seconds. I believe I heard them tell me there was several flavors just as the Naprox kicked in...and kicked me.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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